“DIAPLOUS” Addiction Treatment Unit
Psychiatric Clinic of Corfu General Hospital
What is DIAPLOUS?
The DIAPLOS Addiction Unit has been operating in Corfu since 2013. It covers permanent and ongoing needs for addiction services, both for addicts and their families.
Its creation is the result of the requests of the overwhelming majority of institutional and non-institutional bodies on the Island, the broader anti-drug movement and our fellow citizens.
The DIAPLOS Addiction Unit belongs to the Psychiatric Clinic of the General Hospital of Corfu and through the National Health System provides exclusively public and free addiction services.
Participation in the Addiction Unit is voluntary, the therapeutic framework is “dry” and does not provide substitutes. The therapeutic approach is based on psychotherapy (individual, group and alternative forms of therapy), lasts 24 months and is divided into three distinct therapeutic phases:
a) counseling center, b) psychological detoxification, c) social reintegration.
The treatment program is an external open program and does not include a closed phase at this time.
Μονάδα Απεξάρτησης “ΔΙΑΠΛΟΥΣ”
Counseling Station
The Counseling Center accepts requests for help with all types of addictions. Through confidential therapeutic procedures, the Treatment Team, which consists of specialized staff in the provision of addiction services, can help immediately, without waiting, in dealing with addiction to alcohol, drugs, the internet, and gambling.
The Counseling Station constitutes the first phase of the program, providing therapeutic services:
- Consulting
- Support
- Awareness
- Information
- Highlighting the causes that lead to use, systematic use and dependence
- Highlighting the reasons and motivations to stop using and accept the need for treatment
Open Monday to Friday from 7am to 3pm
Department of Psychological Support
Individuals who have progressed through Phase A of the Counseling Center can, if they wish and are determined, proceed to Phase B of Psychological Detoxification. The treatment plan focuses on rebuilding the addicted individual’s personality, the reasons that led to substance use, and the subsequent adoption of a lifestyle that will not be mediated by them.
The External Psychological Detoxification Program includes on a daily basis:
- Individual psychotherapies
- Group psychotherapies
- Alternative therapies
Social Reintegration
With the completion of the second phase of psychological detoxification, the third phase of social reintegration begins, which focuses on group and individual psychotherapy, as well as psychosocial support activities:
- In eliminating stigma
- In addressing social racism
- In equal social, psychological relationships
- In vocational rehabilitation
- In highlighting abilities and skills and connecting them to a single and universal personality
- In strengthening healthy family relationships
Family therapy department
In addition to the therapeutic support of individuals undergoing detoxification, parents, family members and their wider environment are given the opportunity to join groups of parents, siblings and relatives with the aim of:
- Awareness
- Information
- Psychological and social support
- Understanding the problem
- Developing problem management and user support capabilities
- Correct communication
- Emotional expression
Department for teenagers
Adolescence is a sensitive period in the lives of young people. At this age, a part of them, with particular sensitivities, will be confronted with social, economic, psychological… difficulties, will find it difficult to manage them and will seek refuge in the false world of addictions. The adolescents and youth department aims to:
- To strengthen meaningful healthy family relationships
- To support the psychosocial processes of positive role models
- To enhance the possibilities of creation and expression
- To support the adoption of a drug-free lifestyle
Physical detoxification department (detox)
A difficult period for addicted individuals is the period of cessation of use, because they are faced with the management of withdrawal symptoms. The physical detoxification department focuses on:
- In the treatment of withdrawal symptoms with medical assistance
- In the psychological support of this effort
- In the strengthening of the decision to continue the effort in the therapeutic structures of the unit.
Contact number: 2661360822
Dual Diagnosis Department
A significant number of addicted individuals face psychiatric problems in addition to substance use. The purpose of the dual diagnosis department is to help these individuals, so that with appropriate medical support they can deal with their mental health problems and make their detoxification easier. Help is provided through:
- Medical care
- Appropriate psychological support
- Abstinence from use in a protected environment
- Social support
- Family support
Prison counseling station
With the contribution of the Unit’s specialized staff, attempts are made within the prison to assist prisoners in changing their lifestyle, abstaining from substance use and ultimately reducing the risk of relapse after their release, through activities:
- Group psychotherapy
- Medical treatment of health problems
- Psychosocial support from the Unit’s social service
- Alternative therapeutic groups “Creation and expression”
Prevention Department
The Unit’s prevention department plans and organizes awareness, information and training programs for teachers and students in primary and secondary education as well as prevention programs that concern adolescents, young adults and special population groups. To this end, the following are carried out:
- Experiential Groups
- Art and Culture Events
- Personal Development Groups
Internet and Gaming Department
This department provides internet and gambling addiction recovery services. Parents, Youth, Adolescents and adults can seek help.
“DIAPLOUS” Addiction Treatment Unit
DRUGS – ALCOHOL – INTERNET – GAMBLING
Psychiatric Clinic of Corfu General Hospital
Tel.: 2661045600 – 2661361163
Physical detoxification department (detox): 2661360822
Fax: 2661042354
